Learn Mich

Get up and running with confidence

Short, friendly lessons that take you from install to your first receipt — plus deeper guides for every part of Mich.

Getting started guide

Your first session, step by step

1

Install & open Mich

Download for your platform and launch — no account to create, no setup wizard to fight.

2

Create your encrypted database

Pick a master passphrase; your data is encrypted at rest on your own computer.

3

Add or import donors

Enter a few supporters by hand, or import your existing list from a spreadsheet.

4

Record your first gift

Log a donation, split it across funds if needed, and watch the dashboard update.

5

Send a receipt

Generate a tax receipt from your own Word template using mail-merge tokens.

Download Mich & start the guide

Video tutorials

Watch how it’s done

9:48

Your first 10 minutes in Mich

7:15

Importing donors from a spreadsheet

6:48

Recording gifts & in-kind donations

8:02

Pledges & installment payments

5:20

Receipts & thank-you letters

6:10

Reports & the dashboard

Topic guides

Go deeper, area by area

Donors

Contact details, address validation, fast search, and each supporter’s full giving history.

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Donations

Gift types and methods, fund designations, and splitting one gift across multiple funds.

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Pledges

Frequencies, outstanding balances, and the payments recorded against each pledge.

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Receipts

Generate receipts and thank-yous from your own Word templates by mail-merge.

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Reports

KPI cards, giving trends, and pipeline and pie charts for confident decisions.

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Database

Local encryption, your own passphrase, and one-click backups you control.

Read guide →